Woodstock High School - Eureka Yearbook (Bryant Pond, ME)

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RISE LND SHINE What is Lacking in our school? Why arenlt we more enthu- siastic about our school? Why don't we rise and shine? This year I feel that we have been lacking something and wo haven't been doing our best. we don't have much school spirit or concern for our school. Let us examine ourselves and see just what is wrong. Do we love our school? Is our school important to us? .2- -' I think what is wrong is that we don't care, we aren't aware of our school, or maybe we are afraid of what someone else will think or say. Let us stop back-biting and get to work. I feel that next year with just a little more love for our school we can have the best and most prosperous school year in the history of Woodstock High. Let us rise and shine! Marguerite Mullen, '52 THE DUTIES AND TRAITS OF A SECRETARY The secretary has man duties to perform during her day at the office. Some of the important ones are taking dictation and transe cribing the letters, receiving callers, doing bookkeeping, filing, opening and sorting the mail. While doing her duties, the secretary must remember her obligations to her boss. She must be dependable and then she will be able to take a lot of the responsibility on her own shoulders. Loyalty is another important trait, for to hold a job a secretary must keep the office business to herself and never talk about it with other people. She must have an interest in her work to accomplish all the duties that will be assigned her. Above all, she must have intelligence and then she will be qualified to do all the above things She must dress properly for office work and not wear conspicuous clothing. She must be neat in her work. She must be courteous to people doing business for her employer and show them every consider- ation in making appointments and receiving people in the office and on the phone or she will lose business for her boss. A secretaryfs work is important and she must keep the above duties and traits in mind at all times to become a successful secretary. Harriet Hathaway, '51

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NEXT AMERICAN FREEDOIIIIMNS TO THE WORLD A lot of people think of American democracy in terms of cars, ice cream, ball games and a mansion for everyone. This is, in a sense, true because under a democratic government such as ours, the common worker may have all or most of these things. All of us see and use hundreds of things every day which would be dreams cone true to outsiders. Here in the United States, we have freedom of equality or jurisdiction under law. Everyone can defend himself in court, and no one is prosecuted without a trial. Other important factors are, that we have the right to wor- ship God as we see fit, say what we think as long as it isnft harmful to any- one, write what we wish and when we deem it necessary. HBut,H they say, Hthere is a great deal of prejudice towards the colored and the Jewish races.U Yes, there is! It is true, nevertheless, we are not, and never will be, judges of them. There is only one judge of humanity, and no one knows whether a man is good or sinful until the day he meets God face to face. American democracy started with the coming of the Pilgrims in 1620, when people were awakening up to the idea that there must be a better may of life, of getting ahead, of learning, and of having a sense of security. It was hardly that way in the beginning, but with the coming of such great leaders as Washington, Adams, Franklin, Monroe, and Lincoln, things began to shape up. In 1776, the famed Declaration of Independence was signedg then later on, the Bill of Rights, or the first ten ammendments to the Constitution, were put into effect. Just what does American democracy mean to the world? Does it mean peace and security or propaganda? No one knows the answer. At the end of World War Two, a group of officials in Washington, headed by General George Marshall, formed the European Recovery Program better known as the Marshall plan. This provided that the stricken and starving nations affected by the war would be cared for by America. Many countries eagerly grasped onto this because they were so desperate and it seemed like the only sure way of surviving. Others revolted greatly because they looked upon us as the Hwolf with the breadbasketn or a nation trying to buy them into beconine a democratic country. That was an advantage to Communism, the exact opposite of democracy. Russia offered them sure and equal wages, no discrimination, and propaganda for security. Once behind the Hiron curtainu they couldnit escape. At the time of the Berlin Blockade, it was said that Hone shot between an ally and a Communist could easily start a warn. Now, however our criticisms and cries have turned to an entirely difierent and threatening region of the world--Korea. We are not fighting this battle because we expect to gain more land, but because America, being one of the worlds strongest footholds of Freedom, feels it her duty to protect the smaller and weaker countries against extermination. ,----V ,ry-X f XA ' , X, ,f' ,Typ by Patricia Scribner, '51 Vf AB , 1 f.. , N 1 lj' mg. CQ at sg. 1: xi X x X ' X' s 57 1' vfgx ' ,,--5-Xfvx 4-at ' Y .-'jty M 'NX JV ,.fQ:4 , as ..4,jQ.,, -' '.gs.,., 1 la C I X f 'ft 'N.f-EFQCX. .hff- .aowfr v t:1f::3 R. JAY C - ff,-111 xf fv f I -' 1? Gf':L'1'f' 1- 'f 'fjfv .,x ':f'xwN1YQ,'rli'r,Tx3 'dbh IXNNQW EC E311 xl. L15 4 ,-DPAi3,:1ll. -l'J,,a,1::?fe tx!

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LEADERSHIP In every nation, state, town, and community life there must be a leader. Leadership is important to everyone in every way of life. and happy to be a leader. And this should be so, but ther remember, one should not use his leadership the wrong way. and fellowmen think enough of you to ask for and follow yo your appreciation by using your influence and prestige in manner, It is natural that in this world there must be people and those who are followers, Some people just havenft the to lead others and so must be content to follow. But this ashamed of as a follower can do as much good as a leader. would a factory be without workers and the same applies to In school life there must be a few who have ideas,and to-it-iveness, and campaigning inspire others with their i help to create better school spirit and a larger variety o which of course helps to create a finer school. In your community, in your homo, in your church, and your school life, be a leader. It makes one proud e is one thing to If your friends ur judgment, show a straight-forward who are leaders ability or judgment is nothing to be Of what importance the followerss with much stick- deas and aims and f activities, above all in Orene Whitman 'Sl MY SENIOR YEAR My senior year has been more fun than any of the three previous years. when one becomes a senior he seems more grown up and is looked up to by lower classmen. One realizes in the senior year how quickly four years have gone by, and of the good times and friends he is about to leave behind. Only at this point do high school students regret the coming summer vacation. A senior seems to have more privileges than a student from a lower class. .The senior year offers subjects of interest, such as Commercial Law and American History. All in all, the senior year is one packed with fun along with a few disappointments. Seniors have many plans to make, and many decisions. Seniors always act a little proud and this gives lower class members the idea that they are Ustuck upu. Perhaps they are a little too proud, hut after all, they have a right to be. They have earned this right, ' A Richard Mills '51 1 4 W 4 T